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  Spectrum, Border, Injunction Changes Included In Mega Bill

  By Courtney Bublé

  The House voted 218-214, almost along party lines, on Thursday on the reconciliation budget package, which inclu...(read more)

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  The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

  By Jack Karp

  The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly dou...(read more)

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• Stewart Drops Mixed Bag Of Discretionary Denial Rulings

  By Dani Kass

  Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart has released 24 more discretionary denial decisions, more than half of which she cleared challenges to move forward through the Patent Trial and Appeal Board process.

• Genentech's $122M MS Drug Royalties Case Ends In Mistrial

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday after jurors reached an impasse in Genentech Inc.'s $122 million breach of contract case over patent royalties from sales of Biogen MA Inc.'s multiple sclerosis medicine, telling the parties she's open to Genentech's suggestion that they forgo a jury for the retrial.

• FCC Aims To Advance Fast-Track Process For Removing Regs

  By Christopher Cole

  The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote this month on whether to employ a fast-track procedure to remove regulations that are deemed obsolete without having to go through the typical process of first issuing a public notice and soliciting comment.

• 50 Cent Faces Uphill Battle To Stop Release Of Horror Film

  By Gina Kim

  A California federal judge appeared ready Thursday to reject 50 Cent's efforts to stop the release of a horror film that allegedly uses the rapper's name and likeness without authorization, saying he's "skeptical" of the request and unclear about how the rapper's reputation would be harmed by the film's release. 

• Circuit-By-Circuit Recap: Justices Send Message To Outliers

  By Jeff Overley

  It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.

• Justices Extend Due Process Pause To South Sudan Removals

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court clarified Thursday that its recent order allowing the Trump administration to send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to with little notice or chance to object extends to a group of men the government plans to send to South Sudan.

• High Court To Hear Street Preacher's First Amendment Case

  By Spencer Brewer

  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a challenge to an ordinance in Brandon, Mississippi, that redirects demonstrations to a designated protest area, teeing up an examination of whether case law prevents someone who has been convicted from bringing a civil rights suit.

• Thoma Bravo Buying Restaurant Platform Olo In $2B Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Software-focused private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to purchase New York-based Olo Inc., a software-as-a-service platform for restaurants, in an all-cash transaction that gives Olo an approximately $2 billion equity value, the companies said Thursday.

• Free-Speech Suit Will Be Early Trial Court Test Of Trump Admin

  By Julie Manganis

  A Massachusetts federal judge will begin hearing testimony Monday in a challenge by academic organizations to the Trump administration's visa revocations and removals of noncitizen faculty and students who have expressed pro-Palestinian views, in one of the first trials over the president's second-term policies.

• High Court Passes On Mont. Abortion, Parental Consent Case

  By Yeji Jesse Lee

  The U.S. Supreme Court declined Thursday to hear a case focused on parental consent and abortion in Montana, as two conservative justices said the decision shouldn't be seen as a rejection by the justices of the parental-rights question itself.

• HHS Ordered To Restore Data Axed Under 'Gender Ideology' EO

  By Gianna Ferrarin

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must restore a swath of webpages and datasets it took down following a Trump administration executive order seeking to root out references to so-called gender ideology, a D.C. federal judge ruled.

• Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

  By Jack Karp

  The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions.